Improvement in rowing-gear



1W. MELCHER.

RQWIITG-GEAR.

No. 192,382. Patented June 26,1877.

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JOHN W. MELOHER, OF OSHKOSH, WISCONSIN.

IMPROVEMENT m ROWING-GEAR.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 192,382, dated June 26, 1877; application filed February 28, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN W. MELCHER, of Oshkosh, in the county of Winnebago, and in the State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rowing- Gear 5 and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being bad to the accompanying drawing, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

The object of my invention is to enable a person, when rowing, to sit facing the bow of boat; and this is done by the combination of rowing-gear, consisting of handle it and drawbar 01, connected to the oar, with the pin lin.

the slot of the iron at, in which the pin Z, when rowing, works back and forth, and causes the oar to feather with every stroke, and the oar and handle connected to the rolling bar a with the bolts f f, and the rolling bar hung to the boat, and with the irons g g, as shownvin the perspective view, Figure 1, of the accompanying drawing.

The rowing-gear is illustrated more in detail in the accompanying figures, of which Fig. 2

is the iron in which oar is hung, and Fig. 3 the bolt f.

b is the blade, having band 0; d, the drawbar; e, rolling bar; f, the bolt; g, the iron which the rolling bar is hung in; h, the handle which operates the oar Z, the pin that fits in the band'c and fastens the oar in the band and connects the oar and handle.

It will be evident that the slot in the iron a could be made in the iron under the drawbar around the oar and band 0, and a head on the pin 1 would answer the same purpose to operate and feather the oar as the slot shown.

February, 1877.

JOHN W. MELGHER. Witnesses:

F. T. ZENTNER, WM. F. GEEENWALD. 

